if there was a way to fix the ignore system more people would use it, but as is its mostly pointless because of the reply with quote...and then there are the special members who reply with quote just to annoy people and show them what an ignored person has said. so if you ignore newbies who reply with quote because they are used to it on other forums, and also ignore all the people who reply with quote to be jerks...well at that point you have a pretty empty looking thread lol
and the stupid thread epidemic will continue because new people join, post the usual questions, get flamed, never come back. rinse and repeat. just have a few stickies at the top with the most common newb threads...best asa bat...greatest bat of all time...best metal bast...best single wall non composite handle metal bat produced between may of 2000 and jan of 2006...what is a composite bat?...etc